Improvement in sewing-machine covers



PATENT CEEICE.

FRANCIS R. WOLFINGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

' IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINE COVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,358, dated July 25,1871.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANcis R. WOLEINGER,

of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Sewing-Machine Covers 5 and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and lettersmarked thereon, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of asewing-machine cover made according to my improved plan; Fig. 2, anelevation of the same, as when it is closed; Fig. 3, a vertical sectiontaken through the open cover at Fig. 1.

The object of the present invention is to improve the sewing-machinetablepatented by John J. Wheat, October 4, 1870, and numbered 108,- 074;and its nature consists in thc peculiar construction and arrangement ofthe hinges for attaching the front of the cover, in combination with theother parts forming the cover, whereby the necessity for making the saidfront in two parts is obviated, while, at the same time, the coverpresents a much neater appearance, and is much more substantial,inasmuch as there are fewer joints in the face of the cover, as thewhole is hereinafter fully shown and described.

A represents the table (proper) of a sewingmachine; D D, the ends of thecover; C, the

back; I, the front; and E the top of the cover.

G represents what is known in said patent as the sinking-piece, which ishinged to back C at P, and rises up in the place of C when the cover isclosed, as shown at Fig. 2. The back C is hinged at b toA, and at a totop E, the ends D being also hinged at c to the top E. All of thisarrangement is substantiallythe same as in Wheats patent referred to,nothing thus far being claimed as new. But the front I of the cover isarranged differently, inasmuch as it is provided with arectangular-winged hinge, d f, the lower part f of which fastens to thetop E, and the straight part or wing d to the said front I, the eye orjoint of the hinge coming even with the tops of the endpieces D, so thatthe front I will fold flat onto them, as shown by dotted lines' J, Fig.3. By this means the necessity for making a joint at or on the line x w,as is the case in the aforesaid patent, is obviated, adding verymaterially to the appearance of the cover, andrendering it much moredurable, while, at the same time, the strain on the hinge d fis notnearly so great as when the front is made in two parts and hinged in theordinary way. Hence the cover always shuts closely together and thefront does not knuckle.

l Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is

The solid front I, combined with the hinges d f, when the wings j' aresecured to the top E and are provided with joints or eyes coming evenwith the tops of the ends D D, when folded so that the said front I willfold flat on the said ends, as described.

FRANCIS It. WOLFINGER.

Witnesses GEO. L. CHAPIN, GEO. P. PAssEs.

